Reading English from 1000 Ad
24 Feb 2026 ”How far back in time can you understand English?”, a post that tells a story starting with the English of 2000 AD and ending with the English of 1000 AD has gone viral, and gotten a lot of people interested in older forms of English. A common sentiment expressed by readers is […]
Show HN: Steerling-8B, a language model that can explain any token it generates
Author: Guide Labs Team Published: February 23, 2026 We are releasing Steerling-8B, the first interpretable model that can trace any token it generates to its input context, concepts a human can understand, and its training data. Trained on 1.35 trillion tokens, the model achieves downstream performance within range of models trained on 2–7× more data. […]
Shatner is making an album with 35 metal icons
You might know him as Captain James T. Kirk, the cavalier captain of the Starship Enterprise from Star Trek, but believe it or not, William Shatner is a true heavy metal warrior – and he has just announced an all-star metal album to prove it. Given all that he has been through – all those […]
Meta problem with URPF our bundle in Boca raton
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I Ported Coreboot to the ThinkPad X270
Posted on: 2026-02-20T17:39Z Tags: Table of Contents In my post from 2026-02-18, I committed myself towards helping work on coreboot + libreboot with the goal of porting it to the X270. It’s less than a week later and I have done it. My X270 is a 20HM model and this means that it is a […]
AI Added ’Basically Zero’ to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says
Meta, Amazon, Google, OpenAI, and other tech companies spent billions last year investing in AI. They’re expected to spend even more, roughly $700 billion, this year on dozens of new data centers to train and run their advanced models. This spending frenzy has kept Wall Street buzzing and fueled a narrative that all this investment […]
Making Wolfram Tech Available as a Foundation Tool for LLM Systems
LLMs don’t—and can’t—do everything. What they do is very impressive—and useful. It’s broad. And in many ways it’s human-like. But it’s not precise. And in the end it’s not about deep computation. So how can we supplement LLM foundation models? We need a foundation tool: a tool that’s broad and general and does what LLMs […]
The Physics and Economics of Moving 44 Tonnes at 56mph
You’re on the M1, doing 65, and two trucks pull out alongside each other. For the next several minutes you watch them drift past each other at what appears to be exactly the same speed. Your blood pressure rises. The inside lane backs up. Eventually the overtaking truck completes its pass, pulls in, and the […]
AI-powered reverse-engineering of Rosetta 2 (for Linux VM)
A comprehensive reverse-engineering effort to understand and document Apple’s Rosetta 2 binary translation technology. Table of Contents Background What is Rosetta? What is Rosetta 2? How Apple Delivers Rosetta 2 in macOS Technical Architecture This Project File Structure Usage Progress References Background The Architecture Transition In November 2020, Apple announced their first Apple Silicon Macs, […]
FreeBSD doesn’t have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook. AI build one for me
My old 2016 MacBook Pro has been collecting dust in a cabinet for some time now. The laptop suffers from a “flexgate” problem, and I don’t have any practical use for it. For quite some time, I’ve been thinking about repurposing it as a guinea pig, to play with FreeBSD — an OS that I’d […]